This may just be a sign of me being/getting older,

Colors? In my day, we had no color, and we liked it.

Value and price are not the same thing. It's business 101, really: you should price your product based on how much it is worth to your customers (=how much they'll pay). If you price your product higher than what your customers are willing to pay (=perceived value), you need to either 1) rethink your product's pricing…

sale lowers the perception of a good's true value

The 64 version is a wee closer:

Most of them would not, just as most people didn't buy the MacBook Pro with Retina at launch and instead waited a year or two once the technology became more affordable.

What he's calling the "culture of sales" has been going on for at least a hundred years, better known as "consumption society."

If they're hot, should we call them GMILF?

Region locking is already in place on Steam. There are hundred of titles on Steam that users living in Japan can't buy because of it. Retail codes don't work either, unless you use a VPN -which is deemed illegal by Steam's EULA:

Frankly the currency isn't as much of an issue as the fact that the majority of games available via Steam are either not localized (or very poorly localized) in Japanese or that the Japanese publisher is preventing them from being sold in Japan. And of course, Steam is enabling region locking, which means that you can…

The issue is not so much with "pretty girls" as with pretty girls wearing skimpy outfits.

According to the article "They weren’t just older than your typical booth babe, one was literally a grandmother."

I think that's what they meant; I was just pointing out that their assumptions that everybody has an upgradable, Windows-based tower PC lying around and the skills/time to shop for parts and build their own rig, is very inaccurate.

If it was only the wrists... This is all over the place, broken shoulder, one arm several inches shorter than the other, and WTF is happening with his obliques?

Back in the days before the Internet was as common as it is now, LAN parties were basically the only way to play multiplayer games (console multiplayer was limited to sports, 4 player Bomberman and Micro Machines, ...). Lugging around 17" CRT monitors and big ass full tower PCs builds character.

I've tried to explain the concept of having different console manufacturers and format to the wife; needless to say, I'm in charge of all game purchases or we'd probably end up with a lot of garbage bin games for systems that we don't own.

This reasoning is always based on wrong assumptions. I'm a Mac user (my work PC is provided by my company) and most people around me have either a laptop (MacBook or PC), an iMac or only have a tablet (Android or iOS); if you look at PC sales in the last few years, you'll see that they're representative of typical…

Unless she's buying you games, in which case you should probably correct her. If not, your time is probably spent better talking about something else.

For handhelds maybe. For consoles, I'd argue that the Wii U has shown that the Nintendo brand name alone doesn't mean much anymore.

The problem with this reasoning is that you forget to mention that you need to buy a fully functional PC on top of the $130 GPU and the costs associated with the upgrade.